Resources for early childhood educators in the ‘how’ of high-quality learning interactions.
Talking with children workshops, presentations, publications and website resources are designed to bring research in conversation analysis to early childhood teachers. This builds on the work of Professor Liz Stokoe, Dr Rein Sikveland and their colleagues who use the Conversation Analytic Role-Play Method (CARM) to illuminate the interactional practices in professional settings.
Associate Professor Amanda Bateman and Dr Amelia Church coordinate Talking with children, and they are keen to learn more about your professional interests and experience or research interests in interaction in early childhood education.
Professor Amanda Bateman
Mandy is a Professor of Education and Social Work at Birmingham City University. She has led various research projects where she uses conversation analysis to explore peer-peer relationships and teacher-child interactions, and is currently working on a project investigating children’s storytelling in early childhood through to primary school. Amanda is publishing from her projects, including her book Conversation Analysis and Early Childhood Education: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Relationships.
CARM
The Conversation Analytic Role-Play Method (CARM) is underpinned by world class research, led by Elizabeth Stokoe and Rein Sikveland, in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University.
CARM focuses on analysing real-time interaction between a variety of organizations and those who use them. We use conversation analysis to identify what works and what is less effective in communicative encounters. These findings provide the evidence that makes CARM training unique.
Dr Amelia Church
Amelia is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education where she teaches subjects in qualitative research and applied conversation analysis. Amelia’s research in early childhood education focuses on the quality of learning interactions, with an earlier interest in children’s peer interactions (see her book Preference organization and peer disputes: How young children resolve conflict). More recently, her work with Mandy Bateman has been published in their co-edited books, and articles for the Journal of Pragmatics, the International Journal of Early Childhood and Teacher Development.